1. Source
1. Comes from the surname Ji. Ji Jin, the crown prince of Zhou Ling, made the king furious because of his outspoken advice. He was deposed as a commoner and moved to Langya (today's Jiaonan area, Shandong Province), where he thrived for generations. Because they were originally from a royal family, the world called them the "Wang family", and they continued to use the surname Cheng. There was also Bi Gonggao, the fifteenth son of King Wen of Zhou, whose descendants were scattered in the Jingzhao and Hejian areas for some reason. Because they were originally members of the royal family, they called themselves Wang. The surname was inherited unchanged by later generations and gradually became a popular surname.
2. The surname Gui comes from the ancient emperor Yu Shun, who lived in the Beihai and Chenliu areas. It is derived from the descendants of ancient kings and has the surname Wang.
3. It comes from the surname Zi and is a descendant of Chengtang. At the end of the Yin Dynasty, Prince Bigan, the elder brother of King Zhou, was killed for admonishing King Zhou and was buried in Jijun. His descendants lived there to guard the tomb. Because it originated from the royal family, the surname was changed to Wang.
4. Comes from the surname Tian. In 368 BC, Tian He replaced the surname Jiang as the monarch of Qi. It was called "Tian's generation of Qi" in history. It was passed down to eight kings and was destroyed by Qin. His descendants were deposed as common people. One of them considered themselves the royal family of Qi, so they Take Wang as the surname.
5. It comes from after Wei Xianzi in the Spring and Autumn Period. The three families of Han, Zhao and Wei were divided into Jin and each became king. The later Wei Dynasty died in Qin, and its royal family took refuge in various places. Because many of them were descendants of the king of Wei, they changed their surname to Wang. For example, Wei Wuji, Lord of Xinling, took refuge in Mount Tai, entered the Western Han Dynasty, and was named Lord of Lanling. Later, he claimed that he came from a noble family and changed his surname to Wang.
6. It comes from Yan Taizi Dan. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty and established himself as the emperor. Prince Dan's great-great-grandson named Jia presented a talisman and was favored by Wang Mang. He was given the surname Wang, the same as the emperor. In history, many people were given the surname Wang, and their descendants also took Wang as their surname.
7. From ethnic minorities. According to "Tongzhi. Clan Brief": "Those with the Wang surname who came out of Henan were the Kepin clan; those who came out of Fengxu were the Xiner clan; those who came out of Yingzhou were from Gaoli; those who came from Andong were from the Ke Shibu clan. These are all kings with the surname, and most of them will be named Wang after the king."
8. Those who changed their surname to Wang. For example, Wang Sengbian, a Liang general in the Southern Dynasties, was originally from the Xianbei tribe and his surname was Wuwan, but he later changed his surname to Wang; in the Sui Dynasty, there was Wang Shichong, who was originally from the Hu branch of the Western Regions. After entering the Central Plains, he also changed his surname to Wang; in the Five Dynasties, Liu After leaving Fei, he changed his name to Wang Baoyi, and his descendants adopted the surname Wang; some of the Manchu Wanyan clan changed their surname to Wang; and the Mongolian Yelu clan also changed their surname to Wang.
2. Celebrities
There are the Qin general Wang Jian in the Warring States Period; the mythical figure Wang Qiao; the minister Wang Ling in the early Han Dynasty; the minister Wang Yun in the Eastern Han Dynasty; the writers Wang Yi and Wang Can; To extend life, the water conservancy scientist Wang Jing; the Western Han Dynasty poet Wang Bao; the Wei Dynasty classics scholar Wang Su, the metaphysician Wang Bi; the Wei and Jin Dynasty medical scientist Wang Shuhe; one of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty Wang Rong, the minister Wang Dao; the Western Jin Dynasty minister Wang Shuhe Yan; the Southern Qi bibliographer Wang Jian, the writer Wang Rong, the calligrapher Wang Sengqian; the Tang poets Wang Ji, Wang Changling, Wang Zhihuan, Wang Wan, and Wang Han, the painter Wang Qia, the medical scientist Wang Bing, and the mathematician Wang Xiaotong; the Five Dynasties Wang Chao and Wang Shenzhi, the ancestors of the founding of Fujian; the poet Wang Ling of the Northern Song Dynasty, the writer Wang Yucheng, the acupuncture expert Wang Weiyi, and the painter Wang Ximeng; the famous general Wang Jian of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Confucian scholar Wang Bai, the scholar Wang Yinglin, and the poet Wang Yisun; the Quanzhen religion The founder Wang Chongyang; Yuan Dynasty writer Wang Yun, opera writer Wang Ye, painters Wang Yi, Wang Yuan, Wang Meng, Wang Zhenpeng, agriculturist and improver of letterpress printing Wang Zhen, medical scientist Wang Haogu; Ming philosophers Wang Gen, Wang Tingxiang, calligrapher Wang Chong, painter Wang Fu, writers Wang Yi, Wang Jiusi, Wang Shizhen, and Wang Shimao; Qing painter Wang Shimin, poet Wang Shizhen, calligraphers Wang Duo and Wang Wenzhi, philologist Wang Jun, exegesis experts Wang Yinzhi, Wang Niansun, medical scientist Wang Qingren and others. Modern people named Wang include scholar Wang Kaiyun, piano player Wang Binlu, Wang Jinmei, a representative of the Communist Party of China, early labor movement leader Wang Hebo, revolutionaries Wang Ruofei, Wang Jiaxiang, Wang Zhen, diplomat Wang Bingnan, pinyin advocate Wang Zhao, grassland Scientist Wang Dong, crop breeder Wang Shou, zoologist Wang Jiaqi, economist Wang Yanan, chemist Wang Baoren, metallurgist Wang Chongyou, mathematician Wang Yuan, Chinese-American scientist Wang An, computer expert Wang Xuan, Writers Wang Tongzhao, Wang Xijian, Wang Yuanjian, Wang Meng, linguist Wang Li, Peking opera actors Wang Hongshou, Wang Changlin, Wang Yaoqing, Yangzhou Pinghua actor Wang Shaotang, painter Wang Gezhen, opera historian Wang Jisi, film directors Wang Jiayi and Wang Ping, Pinghua artist Wang Shaotang, music Scholar Wang Guangqi, songwriter Wang Luobin, model worker Wang Jinxi, etc.